On Nov 17,  4:30pm, M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de (Matthias Drochner) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Plug-and-Play BIOS support available

| Nearly -- first the device's PnP ID (which is at different places
| in isapnp and pnpbios btw.) is checked, and then the "compatible
| IDs". The IDs have the same syntax and belong into the same
| namespace imho. What makes an ID to the devices' primary ID
| is that the vendor has put it at a special place.

It has to give it a special tag.

| > [PNP???? is reserved for devcompat devices] 
| 
| Really? I didn't read this anywhere, and all PnP BIOSes I've
| seen so far would be broken in this case.

I believe that vendors get assigned 3 letter ids, and the PNP id's are
allocated by consensus.

| Did you have a look at ACPI? At least at the signatures...

No I did not.

christos